There are 12 of them in Azay-le-Rideau…
Nestled in the hollow of a secret valley, the seven towers of the Renaissance Château de la Châtonnière are overlooked by 11 gardens and terraces.
The 11 Chatonnière gardens all have a different theme:
- L’Abondance – vegetable plants
- L’Intelligence – French garden
- Elegance – garden adorned with statues
- Sciences – aromatic and medicinal plants
- Les Romances – multicolored roses
- Les Luxuriances – another rose garden
- Les Fragances – with a thousand fire-colored rosebushes
- Le Silence – Grass squares with cypress trees
- L’Invraissemblance – bouquet de fleurs diverses
- Les Sens – 150 varieties of multicolored perennials
- France – wild garden with poppies and cornflowers.
